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International Socialist Review, Summer 1964

 

The New Cold War

 

From International Socialist Review, Vol.24 No.3, Summer 1964, p.95.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

The New Cold War, Moscow v. Pekin
by Edward Crankshaw
Penquin Books, Baltimore, Maryland, 1963. 167 pp. $0.65.

The thesis of this book, by a leading British student of the Communist movement, is that the Sino-Soviet dispute is profound in origin and definitely here to stay. When the author deals with clearly factual material, such as the two conferences at Bucharest and Moscow in 1960 at which the breach between the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and China widened, the account is quite interesting.

The book is worth reading for this historical illumination of the Sino-Soviet dispute, but Crankshaw’s attempt at a theoretical analysis is of doubtful value.

 
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